From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 20:06:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F221F106566B for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE698FC20 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m85K6Du3013092 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080905200601.GA81339@thought.org> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> <20080905170804.GB20329@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080905170804.GB20329@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Subject: Re: which gray is best for print? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:06:10 -0000 On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xxxxxx") > > is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled > > around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I > > haven't found anything that really fits what I want. URL, anybody? > > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found > > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www. > > > > To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy. > > > > tia, > > > > gary > > I can't tell you which grey is most suitable but I can tell you how I > go about choosing a colour. > > Install: x11/rgb > > Then: > > $ showrgb | less > > will give you the names of the 256 websafe colours and their rgb > values. > > I usually check out the colours by: > > $ xterm -bg DarkSalmon > > etc. > > Alternatively, you can use css and set an html pages bg properties: > > > > & view it in your browser. > > -- > > Frank Thanks for this. I'll check it out when I'm less crushed! Just one note to the list (in case anybody else it looking for attractive/fitting #xxxxxx codes): dark, black-ish blue #000033 is very good and pleasant on the eyes; #333366 even more so. I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true, paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have their own [[ BETTER ]] ideas. I'm looking for what looks good on the web. gary > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org